Reply #39: I wondered that too, aren't Clinton's politics supposed to be

[sohndrsmith]

... sort of ... deferred at this point? If she's a cowboy, then maybe not. I don't know. I hope this is all just rumor, and I hope she has nothing to do with it. But I'm skeptical based on history. Repeated, consistent...

It's very strange that this issue is so important - and that it isn't publicly mollified by the one person who could mollify it... regardless of the appointment. There is no need for an endorsement, just a clarification that would (hopefully) allay fears and doubts that are brewing, yet again... ugh.

Actually, I take that back. If Mrs. Clinton has accepted the SoS position, I do think the appropriate thing might be to - if not endorse - but offer some signal of remnant approval for Kennedy, assuming she has agreed to serve the PE, and assuming that he agrees (I'm guessing he'd be happy with the choice).

Then again, that might be an unfair pressure on Paterson. Good grief. Why does this always happen?

We hyper-focus on this garbage... when so many other things are at stake that are far more crucial... I hope this isn't related in any way to Clinton but I'm having a hard time pinning it on anything or anyone else... by design or default - when the Clintons are involved things seem to go crazy and we lose ourselves... it's really, really weird.

I hope to heck I'm wrong... problem is I've been wrong about this so consistently that...

we'll see what the latest "headlines" bring about. Somehow I fear this may get worse before it gets better - man am I going to catch flak for this...